FlyPast 01.2018

January 2018 FLYPAST 41 30-plus years, the company has created parts for almost 50 of the world’s airworthy 60-odd airworthy Spi ...

42 FLYPAST January 2018 FROM THE WORKSHOP AIRFRAME ASSEMBLIES ...

January 2018 FLYPAST 43 down and prepared for sale, along with another Mk. XV, PR503. In 1998 UB414 was sold to a syndicate in t ...

44 FLYPAST January 2018 FROM THE WORKSHOP AIRFRAME ASSEMBLIES Benchwork There’s a hive of activity around the benches, which occ ...

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H aving given up its Lysanders, Egyptian-based 6 Squadron was left with just a single Hurricane I in the spring of 1942. Having ...

demand as Rommel’s assault on the Gazala-Bir Hakeim line had opened on May 26. With Sqn Ldr Hayter leading in BN860, Flt Lt ‘Pip ...

WORLD WAR 2 HURRI-BOMBERS 48 FLYPAST January 2018 it turned and stood its ground. The Hurricanes of 6 Squadron continued to stag ...

position, while the next day Fg Off Morrison-Bell in BP188 led an attack that destroyed three armoured cars atop an escarpment. ...

Checked in the north at Kasserine, Rommel turned his armour south and on March 6, 1943, flung it against Montgomery’s Eighth Arm ...

the Djebel Tebaga Gap on March Shortly after 10:00 a dozen 6 Squadron Hurricanes engaged tanks in the El Hamma area in the face ...

6th, the Eighth Army opened its assault on the Wadi Akarit line and the ‘Flying Can Openers’ were out in force at 12:25, when 13 ...

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WORLD WAR 2 EIGHTH AIR FORCE tours in the 78th FG, which was one of the three 1942 ‘pioneer’ USAAF outfits in England. He got of ...

Lens area of Belgium. The P-47 Thunderbolts were to attack enemy trains, railyards and road transport. Bolgert was flying as an ...

WORLD WAR 2 EIGHTH AIR FORCE From Canton, Ohio, Myers completed a 200-hour fi rst tour fl ying P-38J Lightnings with the 55th FG ...

so I continued firing until within 100 yards of him, observing many strikes around the cockpit and jet units. He skidded over se ...

WORLD WAR 2 EIGHTH AIR FORCE An old razor-back trooper that had been in the 82nd FS prior to July 1944 was normally assigned to ...

Obfw Rony Lauer, second left, with his Ju 88 bomber crew, 1943. RONY LAUER VIA FRED BOLGERT Right Oberfeldwebel ‘Rony’ Lauer in ...

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